Mother Tongues And Nations

Author : Thomas Paul Bonfiglio
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES
ISBN : 9781934078259

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Mother Tongues and Nations by Thomas Paul Bonfiglio Pdf

Trends in Linguistics is a series of books that publishes state-of-the-art work on core areas of linguistics across theoretical frameworks as well as studies that provide new insights by building bridges to neighboring fields such as neuroscience and cognitive science. The series considers itself a forum for cutting-edge research based on solid empirical data on language in its various manifestations, including sign languages. It regards linguistic variation in its synchronic and diachronic dimensions as well as in its social contexts as important sources of insight for a better understanding of the design of linguistic systems and the ecology and evolution of language. Bonfiglio examines the ideological legacy of the metaphors "mother tongue" and "native speaker" by historicizing their linguistic development. The early nation states constructed the ideology of ethnolinguistic nationalism, a composite of language, identity, geography, and ethnicity that configured the national language as originating in the mother-infant relationship, as well as in local organic nature. These insular protectionist strategies generated the philologies of (early) modernity and their genetic and arboreal "families" of languages, and continue today to evoke folkloric notions that configure language ethnically. Scholarly recognition of the biological metaphors that racialize language will help to illuminate persisting gestures of ethnolinguistic discrimination.

Author : Witold Tulasiewicz,Anthony Adams
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2005-06-09
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781847143457

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Teaching the Mother Tongue in a Multilingual Europe by Witold Tulasiewicz,Anthony Adams Pdf

In a time when the increasing cultural diversity and population mobility of the continent calls for good communication skills, this fascinating book features a wealth of data and critical opinion on the topic of mother tongue education.In the first part of the book, the two editors address central cultural, political and educational concerns relating to the mother tongue, using some of the findings of their European Commission funded research on the changing European classroom. The second part presents case study articles by practitioners from nine countries which have significant regional or immigrant mother tongue populations. These include Welsh in Wales, Catalan and Galician in Spain, Turkish and Greek in Germany, Arabic and Corsican in France, and Belorussian in Poland, as well as critical accounts of the main first language situation in England, Denmark, France, Germany, Poland, post-Soviet Russia, and Spain. The concluding part of the book looks at language awareness as a possible approach to linguistic diversity. It examines the preparation of teachers at all levels, as experinced by the editors through their involvement in an in international language study group based in Calgary, Cambridge, Mainz and Bialystock.Teaching the Mother Tongue in a Multilingual Europe is packed with original information which will be of use to all teachers and educationalists concerned with language.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2007-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789401204965

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Research on mother tongue education in a comparative international perspective by Anonim Pdf

Pioneering in the comparison of standard language teaching in Europe, the International Mother tongue Education Network (IMEN) in the last twenty-five years stimulated experts from more than fifteen European countries to participate in a range of research projects in this field of qualitative educational analyses. The volume “Research on mother tongue education in a comparative international perspective – Theoretical and methodological issues” documents theoretical principals and methodological developments that during the last decades shaped IMEN research and may enlarge the fundaments of comparative qualitative research in language education in a seminal way. The topics of this volume include: • IMEN’s aims, points of departure, history and methodology; • research on the professional practical knowledge of MTE-teachers; • innovation, key incident analysis and international triangulation; • positioning in theory and practice. Also included: the IMEN bibliography 1984-2004 which supplies a complete picture of IMEN research activities from the beginning.

Author : Helena Drysdale
Publisher : Pan Macmillan
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Indigenous peoples
ISBN : 0330372815

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Mother Tongues by Helena Drysdale Pdf

Over a period of eighteen months, the author, her husband and their two young daughters rattled over the roads and motorways of Europe in their mobile home. Drysdale sought out Europe's indigenous tribes and took stock of their place in our modern world.

Author : Foundation for Endangered Languages. Conference,Joan A. Argenter,R. McKenna Brown
Publisher : Institut d'Estudis Catalans
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2004-01-01
Category : Endangered languages
ISBN : 0953824861

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On the Margins of Nations: Endangered Languages and Linguistic Rights by Foundation for Endangered Languages. Conference,Joan A. Argenter,R. McKenna Brown Pdf

Author : Carol Percy,Mary Catherine Davidson
Publisher : Multilingual Matters
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2012-07-25
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781847697806

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The Languages of Nation by Carol Percy,Mary Catherine Davidson Pdf

This collection brings together research on linguistic prescriptivism and social identities, in specific contemporary and historical contexts of cross-cultural contact and awareness. Providing multilingual and multidisciplinary perspectives from language studies, lexicography, literature, and cultural studies, our contributors relate language norms to frameworks of identity beyond monolingual citizenship - nativeness, ethnicity, politics, religion, empire. Some chapters focus on traditional instruments of prescriptivism: language academies in Europe; government language planners in southeast Asia; dictionaries and grammars from Early Modern and imperial Britain, republican America, the postcolonial Caribbean, and modern Germany. Other chapters consider the roles of scholars in prescriptivism, as well as the more informal and populist mechanisms of enforcement expressed in newspapers. With a thematic introduction articulating links between its breadth of perspectives, this accessible book should engage everyone concerned with language norms.

Author : P. Sercombe,R. Tupas
Publisher : Springer
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2014-09-02
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781137455536

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Language, Education and Nation-building by P. Sercombe,R. Tupas Pdf

This volume tracks the complex relationships between language, education and nation-building in Southeast Asia, focusing on how language policies have been used by states and governments as instruments of control, assimilation and empowerment. Leading scholars have contributed chapters each representing one of the countries in the region.

Author : T. Judt,D. Lacorne
Publisher : Springer
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2004-10-14
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781403982452

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Language, Nation and State by T. Judt,D. Lacorne Pdf

This edited collection examines the role that language has played in forming modern European nations. With language an omnipresent issue within the European Union, the importance languages have played within the histories and present situations of member nations is a crucial topic. Drawing on an international cast of contributors, the book explores the issues of monolingualism vs. plurilingualism within individual nations, the revival of languages in nations such as former soviet republics, and concludes with a look at language in the electronic age.

Author : Serafín M. Coronel-Molina,Teresa L. McCarty
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2016-04-28
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781135092344

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Indigenous Language Revitalization in the Americas by Serafín M. Coronel-Molina,Teresa L. McCarty Pdf

Focusing on the Americas – home to 40 to 50 million Indigenous people – this book explores the history and current state of Indigenous language revitalization across this vast region. Complementary chapters on the USA and Canada, and Latin America and the Caribbean, offer a panoramic view while tracing nuanced trajectories of "top down" (official) and "bottom up" (grass roots) language planning and policy initiatives. Authored by leading Indigenous and non-Indigenous scholars, the book is organized around seven overarching themes: Policy and Politics; Processes of Language Shift and Revitalization; The Home-School-Community Interface; Local and Global Perspectives; Linguistic Human Rights; Revitalization Programs and Impacts; New Domains for Indigenous Languages Providing a comprehensive, hemisphere-wide scholarly and practical source, this singular collection simultaneously fills a gap in the language revitalization literature and contributes to Indigenous language revitalization efforts.

Author : Gail Guthrie Valaskakis,Madeleine Dion Stout,Eric Guimond
Publisher : Univ. of Manitoba Press
Page : 379 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780887553615

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Restoring the Balance by Gail Guthrie Valaskakis,Madeleine Dion Stout,Eric Guimond Pdf

First Nations peoples believe the eagle flies with a female wing and a male wing, showing the importance of balance between the feminine and the masculine in all aspects of individual and community experiences. Centuries of colonization, however, have devalued the traditional roles of First Nations women, causing a great gender imbalance that limits the abilities of men, women, and their communities in achieving self-actualization.Restoring the Balance brings to light the work First Nations women have performed, and continue to perform, in cultural continuity and community development. It illustrates the challenges and successes they have had in the areas of law, politics, education, community healing, language, and art, while suggesting significant options for sustained improvement of individual, family, and community well-being. Written by fifteen Aboriginal scholars, activists, and community leaders, Restoring the Balance combines life histories and biographical accounts with historical and critical analyses grounded in traditional thought and approaches. It is a powerful and important book.

Author : Henning Klöter,Mårten Söderblom Saarela
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2020-10-06
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9781000201482

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Language Diversity in the Sinophone World by Henning Klöter,Mårten Söderblom Saarela Pdf

Language Diversity in the Sinophone World offers interdisciplinary insights into social, cultural, and linguistic aspects of multilingualism in the Sinophone world, highlighting language diversity and opening up the burgeoning field of Sinophone studies to new perspectives from sociolinguistics. The book begins by charting historical trajectories in Sinophone multilingualism, beginning with late imperial China through to the emergence of English in the mid-19th century. The volume uses this foundation as a jumping off point from which to provide an in-depth comparison of modern language planning and policies throughout the Sinophone world, with the final section examining multilingual practices not readily captured by planning frameworks and the ideologies, identities, repertoires, and competences intertwined within these different multilingual configurations. Taken together, the collection makes a unique sociolinguistic-focused intervention into emerging research in Sinophone studies and will be of interest to students and scholars within the discipline.

Author : Lee Hock Guan,Leo Suryadinata
Publisher : Institute of Southeast Asian Studies
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789812304827

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Language, Nation and Development in Southeast Asia by Lee Hock Guan,Leo Suryadinata Pdf

Papers from a workshop on Language, Nation and Development in Southeast Asia held in Singapore, 2003.

Author : Bill Bryson
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2015-06-02
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780062417442

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The Mother Tongue by Bill Bryson Pdf

“Vastly informative and vastly entertaining…A scholarly and fascinating book.” —Los Angeles Times With dazzling wit and astonishing insight, Bill Bryson explores the remarkable history, eccentricities, resilience and sheer fun of the English language. From the first descent of the larynx into the throat (why you can talk but your dog can’t), to the fine lost art of swearing, Bryson tells the fascinating, often uproarious story of an inadequate, second-rate tongue of peasants that developed into one of the world’s largest growth industries.

Author : United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2007-11-29
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780199532636

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Education for All Global Monitoring Report 2008 by United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) Pdf

Working towards the 2015 millennium development goals, this global report marks the midterm point and provides a rich evidence-based assessment of the provision of education on a global scale. Based on specialized commissions, extensive consultations and multiple research sources, the report provides an authoritative, comparative reference.

Author : Irene Theodoropoulou,Johanna Tovar
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2020-11-16
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9781000214321

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Research Companion to Language and Country Branding by Irene Theodoropoulou,Johanna Tovar Pdf

Research Companion to Language and Country Branding brings together entirely new interdisciplinary research conducted by scholars working on various sociolinguistic, semiotic, anthropological and discursive analytical aspects of country branding all over the world. Branding is a process of identity construction, whereby countries gain visibility and put themselves on the world map as distinctive entities by drawing on their history, culture, economy, society, geography, and their people. Through branding, countries aim not only at establishing their uniqueness but also, and perhaps most importantly, at attracting tourism, investments, high quality human capital, as well as at forging financial, military, political and social alliances. Against this backdrop, this volume explores how countries and regions imagine and portray others and themselves in terms of gender, ethnicity, and diversity today as well as the past. In this respect, the book examines how branding differs from other, related policies and practices, such as nation building, banal nationalism, and populism. This volume is an essential reference for students, researchers, and practitioners with an interest in country, nation, and place branding processes.